In news that should come as a shock to no one: after all my gleeful exclamations about making public transportation my bitch, I got lost on the MUNI light rail this morning. Went inbound when I should have gone outbound and didn’t figure out the error until I was at the Embarcadero. Because I am dumb, and have the directional skills of a banana slug. But at least I discovered what I had done, and there are worse things to look at than the Bay Bridge while waiting for the correct train to appear. All in all I was only 5 or so minutes late to my training session, even after getting off a stop too soon and having to haul ass uphill to find a building which isn’t visible from the road.

Then after work I’m riding the (correct) bus and somehow the driver misses my call for a stop (or chose to ignore it) and I ended up having to walk from the next stop which was of course over 2 blocks away, in the middle of Union Square. Oh the humanity.

At any rate, work was fine, although I have a lot to learn about institutional policies and procedures before I feel comfortable. I guess that’s par for the course, and I am fairly certain that no one is yet expecting me to be an expert on the finer points of administration at a university where I have only been employed for 48 hours. In short, I survived another day. I know you’re all relieved.